For almost ten years 41-year-old Ganesh Sukdeo has been suffering from debilitating abdominal pain among other medical complaints, but nothing was worse than being told recently by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) that his pains are not real and that he is fit to work.
A frustrated Sukdeo, who has been making his contributions faithfully to NIS as a self-employed person – he operates a shop at his Lusignan address – was told by NIS’s medical board that he has “psychosomatic pains” which at first he did not understand, but he recognized something was wrong when they also said he would be fit for work from February 2, 2012. The three doctors sitting on the board had a brief meeting with him on August 15, 2012.
“How could they diagnose me when they did not do any test or anything? They just saw me for a few minutes and the nurse read out that I was diagnosed in 2010, but that is a lie because I been submitting medicals and was diagnosed in
